Sensitivity of the interannual variability of mineral aerosol simulations to meteorological forcing dataset

Smith, Molly B.; Mahowald, Natalie M.; Albani, Samuel; Perry, Aaron; Losno, Remi; Qu, Zihan; Marticorena, Beatrice; Ridley, David A.; Heald, Colette L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3253-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3253-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3253-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

Research article

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07 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 07 Mar 2017

Sensitivity of the interannual variability of mineral aerosol simulations to meteorological forcing dataset

Molly B. Smith, Natalie M. Mahowald, Samuel Albani, Aaron Perry, Remi Losno, Zihan Qu, Beatrice Marticorena, David A. Ridley, and Colette L. Heald

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RC1: 'Review of Smith et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'Author response to RC1', Molly Smith, 23 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Review: Sensitivity of the Variability of Mineral Aerosol Simulations to Meteorological Forcing Datasets by Molly B. Smith et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Sep 2016
- AC2: 'Author response to RC2', Molly Smith, 23 Dec 2016

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AR by Molly Smith on behalf of the Authors (24 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Jan 2017) by Bernhard Vogel

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (03 Feb 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Feb 2017) by Bernhard Vogel

AR by Molly Smith on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2017) Author's response Manuscript

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Using different meteorology reanalyses to drive dust in climate modeling can produce dissimilar global dust distributions, especially in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). It may therefore not be advisable for SH dust studies to base results on simulations driven by one reanalysis. Northern Hemisphere dust varies mostly on seasonal timescales, while SH dust varies on interannual timescales. Dust is an important part of climate modeling, and we hope this contributes to understanding these simulations.